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  1. Re:File extensions? on Why We Should Stop Hiding File-Name Extensions · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The filetype is now contained in the icon

    The icon of an executable is set by the executable. Enjoy your porn.jpg.exe with a thumbnail icon.

  2. Re:Sounds a lot like what I saw last week on Pharming Attack Targets Home Router DNS Settings · · Score: 2

    The problem is that if they manage to get your DNS settings changed, they can use real URLs in the phishing emails.

  3. Re:Is that really a lot? on Drones Cost $28,000 Per Arrest, On Average · · Score: 2

    borders aren't that hard to keep.

    Isn't that what East Germany said? Walls, landmines, razor wire, snipers, papers please... and they still leaked like a sieve.

  4. Re:I'll tell my insurance company to get right on on The Peculiar Economics of Developing New Antibiotics · · Score: 2

    Setting aside socialism, if the system was working anything approaching optimum for the current configuration of third party payers and patent holders and everything else, insurance companies would already be inventing (and/or buying inventors of) drugs and practically giving them away to their members (or cross-licensing them with other insurers cheap to get their members the best drugs available in multiple categories). As a side effect, insurance companies would inherently aim to reduce side effects (guess who pays when you have a heart attack because of taking some drug) rather than cover side effects up (see: VIOXX). It would also eliminate the (real or imagined) conflict of interest between finding cures and finding treatments.

  5. Re:Not Censorship on Google Knocks Explicit Adult Content On Blogger From Public View · · Score: 1

    It would be, but it'd be impossible to prove unless someone in the State or at Google spoke up about it.

  6. Re:It is about Christians on Google Knocks Explicit Adult Content On Blogger From Public View · · Score: 1

    Are you sure no other sub group objects to porn popping into their faces?

    I've never had porn just "pop into my face" if I wasn't going and looking for it. Are you sure you're not asking a bunch of people from Utah why they use more porn than any other state? "I swear I didn't go to pornmd.com it just popped into my face! It was a typo! a virus! moonbeams!"

    That said, the only groups I can think of who tell people what they can and can't look at or listen to are liberals and bible thumping republicans (also liberals).

  7. Re: Heating the metal to erase on Crystal Pattern Matching Recovers Obliterated Serial Numbers From Metal · · Score: 2

    Maybe not in Europe, but here in the US reloading casings is a thing. http://www.wikihow.com/Reload-... You do need to buy the right equipment though and these days it probably does get you put on lists on either side of the pond.

    Casting bullets isn't the preferred way to make them (since these days people want jacketed bullets hollow points etc) but melting lead and casting them from molds is trivial.

  8. Re:IE once again kills innovation on HTTP/2 Finalized · · Score: 1

    I get that response all the time. Then they tell me it needs to support version 7 of "the internet".

  9. Re:I already solved this on What To Do After Robots Take Your Job · · Score: 1

    Politics aside, the biggest problem with this is going to be the housing. Those "low end" apartments almost certainly didn't spring into existence at $0.96/sqft, but upgrading the 600,000 people from soggy cardboard is going to require a lot of new construction, and people building new things are going to want money for that wood, brick and property, even if the entire structure is built with robots. Terrafoam to the rescue, I guess.

    That said, if you're willing to not own a lot of stuff or have a bedroom, it looks like 242sqft is plenty of space. It's probably pretty standard in Tokyo too.

  10. Re:Technology can NOT eliminate work. on What To Do After Robots Take Your Job · · Score: 1

    But then how will minimum wage employers get to fuck around with everyone by suggesting that they get a second job if they want to live, then refusing to schedule a consistent shift so that the employee can schedule a second job with a consistently different shift?

  11. Re:Moving to a future where you pay for freedom on Privacy: the 21st Century's Newest Luxury Item · · Score: 1

    you pay - either in money or time or experience - for more freedom. Either freedom of privacy

    Or you pay for the illusion of privacy, such as getting AT&T with the death star's ever watchful eye on your traffic plus ads for $70 or for only $30 more you can turn off the ads but not turn off the traffic monitoring.

  12. Re:Thinking of keyloggers, on How "Omnipotent" Hackers Tied To NSA Hid For 14 Years and Were Found At Last · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Now I wonder if tabs work in passwords on *nix, if I set my username to be pwd and my password to be cd ../../<TAB><TAB>f<TAB> how would anyone figure that out from a keylog dump?

  13. Re:Science... Yah! on Science's Biggest Failure: Everything About Diet and Fitness · · Score: 1

    But the failure is not of the science, it's the failure of 95% of everyone else, and that's what's important here!

  14. Re: "Energy Balance" an overly simplistic view on Science's Biggest Failure: Everything About Diet and Fitness · · Score: 1

    but you will never get *more* calories out of the food than what's on the labeling

    Unless you have gut bacteria that can digest dietary fiber into sugar for you.

  15. Re:we have had this story before on Iowa Wants To Let You Carry Your Driver's License On Your Phone · · Score: 1

    Because this time they're absolutely certain that millions of 18-20 year old college students won't work to forge this ID and get drunk.

  16. Re:GOTO is a crutch for bad programmers on Empirical Study On How C Devs Use Goto In Practice Says "Not Harmful" · · Score: 1

    This compiles in my head (it's been a looooong time since I last touched C) and uses three allocations and several places that can fail.

    /* Write no more than 1024 bytes to a new file.txt */
    if (-1 != (dest = creat("file.txt", S_IRUSR|S_IWUSR|S_IRGRP|S_IWGRP))) {
      if (-1 != (src = open("source.txt"))) {
        if (NULL != (buf = calloc(1024, 1))) {
          if (-1 != (rd = read(src, buf, 1024))) { /* should reading zero bytes be an error? */
            total_written = 0;
            buf_p = buf;
            break_loop = 0; /* because break is just another name for goto */
            while (total_written < rd && !break_loop) {
              if (-1 != (wr = write(dest, buf_p, rd-total_written))) {
                total_written += wr;
                buf_p += wr;
              } else {
                break_loop = 1; /* TODO check errno for fixable errors like EAGAIN or EINTR */
                perror("Error writing to file");
              }
            }
          } else {
            perror("Read failed");
          }
          free(buf);
        } else {
          perror("Memory allocation error");
        }
        close(src);
      } else {
        perror("Unable to open source.txt");
      }
      close(dest);
    } else {
      perror("Unable to create file.txt");
    }

    Feel free to bash and/or offer constructive criticism. There's probably some official order to how things should be allocated but I don't know what it is. Maybe memory and sourcefile should have come first to minimize filesystem impact. First thought is that the loop in the middle could be moved to a function to move x bytes from file a to file b using buffer c which relies on x a b c correctness instead of testing it.

  17. Re:Don't forget on Ask Slashdot: Affordable Large HD/UHD/4K "Stupid" Screens? · · Score: 1

    I house-sat for my sister once years ago, and she had an AV receiver that was hooked up to a DVD player. Once I got bored watching DVDs I tried hooking up my playstation but couldn't get any sound. It took me several hours to accidentally realize that the genius who created it thought it would be a great idea to have completely independent audio and video inputs so even after selecting Video 2, the DVD audio (which was off) was still coming out the speakers.

  18. Re:Just don't connect to a network on Ask Slashdot: Affordable Large HD/UHD/4K "Stupid" Screens? · · Score: 2

    Turn on 3D mode and you can tilt your head to see behind the "SIM Card Error! Contact Support Immediately!" popup in the center of the screen.

  19. Re:No on Ask Slashdot: Panic Button a Very Young Child Can Use · · Score: 1

    And if there's one thing that everyone else hates, it's paying to help disabled people.

  20. Re:Fuck beta? on Ask Slashdot: Panic Button a Very Young Child Can Use · · Score: 1

    I don't know on beta, but on non beta, you go to your preferences (the gear next to the post anonymously checkbox) and choose "Plain Old Text" for your "Comment Post Mode". This gives you the bastard child that is forum style posting, where you can write HTML if you feel like it or you can write whatever and as long as it doesn't look like HTML it will just work but as soon as you want to write < you better break out your html entities guide.

    Also remember, two enters is a paragraph.

  21. Re:Absurd thesis on Your Java Code Is Mostly Fluff, New Research Finds · · Score: 1

    That is absolutely absurd! How can they measure the fluffiness if they don't even bother considering all the XML required to get hello world to work in [insert Java framework here]?

  22. Re:Peanuts on Your Java Code Is Mostly Fluff, New Research Finds · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You forgot the MakeRocketLauncherGoNowFactory, the MakeRocketLauncherGoNowFactoryFactory, the MakeRocketLauncherGoNowException, the ...

  23. Re:Don't say I didn't warn you. on The Dark Web Still Thrives After Silk Road · · Score: 1

    I don't know about "the" geek, but I'm curious whether, say, Somalia's government is organized enough to set up a PRISM-level metadata collection scheme across its entire communication infrastructure.

    Personally, though, I assume that the NSA is double-tapping all of the communications in all of the countries outside of the US since they're already tapping all of the communications inside of it.

  24. Past Tense on Another Bitcoin Exchange Fraud · · Score: 2

    I think you mean "MyCoin was a Hong Kong-based virtual currency trading exchange."

    Also I do without slashdot for a whole day and what do I get? I get a dupe.

    Welcome back, slashdot.

  25. Re:1/2 requests,2x throughput, stop POST-Redirect- on Google Chrome Will Adopt HTTP/2 In the Coming Weeks, Drop SPDY Support · · Score: 1

    Clearly we're not making posts to an HTTP-based discussion board because when we submit a POST request we get response data back that is then displayed on screen. Violating such fundamental principles of HTTP surely disqualifies it from being considered as such.